Peter Jackson pays $40m above RV for potential film museum site in Wellington

Peter Jackson pays $40m above RV for potential film museum site in Wellington
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh now have around 27,000 square metres of land in Rongotai, Wellington. (Image: Getty)
Gregor Thompson
Film-makers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have paid almost twice the rating valuation for a collection of properties rumoured to be the site of a future film museum in the capital. BusinessDesk reported two weeks ago that someone had bought a large patch of land in the Wellington suburb of Rongotai. The site comprises almost an entire block of Wellington Airport leasehold land in Lyall Bay, west of the runway. Recently updated property records show that LB HC Ltd, a holding company with Jackson and Walsh as directors and their Win...

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